Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13
BY FAITH.
Instances Recorded OF Cures Effected by
Faith.
New York World.

New York World.
A young man named Conover, living
near Parkersburg, W. Va, had severe
attack of the measles. His grandmother,
anxious to effect speedy cure, placed
him between two ticks of feathers with
hot stones st his feet and a live sheep be-
side him. The cure was so effective that
the youth died few hours afterwsrd.
Mrs. Herman Of Kokomo, Ind. who had
been paralyzed for several years, became
| interested IN series of revival meetings,
and induced her son to carry her 10 the
church IN which they were conducted.
| While she was there the congregation
prayed for her, and, to the great surprise
of all, she arose and walked from her seat
to the pulpit. She is now said to be able
to walk as well as she ever could.
Mrs. Louise Scribner, al advocate of
the Christian science of faith healing, is
| said to have effected some remarka bic
cures in different parts CT Missouri. The
most noteworthy case is that of James
Donovan, an aged resident of Missouri
| City. IrfamatOry Thumatism has kept
him in bed for more than q score of
years, but he is now as active as man
Of forty. Mrs. Scribner cures her
patients by simply reading the Bible to
them and praying for their recovery.
r. W. Prendergast. 8 WelI-knoWn mer-
chant of Bellevue, Ky, was given up by
his physicians month ago, and left to
die. He had been afflicted with an ur-
known disease wnIchibaffieds their keen
est diagnosis, and the medicine admins
tered to him seemed to make his con-
dition worse. After the physicians had
left him three ladies' went to his bedside
and prayed that he might be healed. The
sick man grew better at once, the visits
and prayers were continued with increas-
ing success, and to-day he is well. Be
fore his recovery Mr.. Prendergast had
not been inside of q church fey fifteen
years, but he is now regular attendant
Father Bcudard, the priest in charge of
the Convent of the Ursuline Nuns, in New
Orleans, hss caused considerable agita-
ton among the Creole portion of the CITY
by his reported miraculous cures. It is
reported that several women who had lost
confidence in the ability of their physi-
clans 20 cure their ailments, applied to the
reverend father and we're directed to OBJ
serve course of religious meditation and
prayer. This was followed by the eppIi-
cation of certain miraculous water at
the hands of the priest, who at the same
time made passes with holy relic. The
treatment is said TO have been effiCacious
in number OF instances, and because Of
the great excitement created thereby the
archbishop has ordered Father Boudard
to cease his healing practices.
a remarkable instance of an invslid's
recovery through faith is reported from
Preble county, Ohio. Miss Sarah FOuble, |
the daughter of & respectable farmer Iiy- |
ing Just out Of Sonora, had been bedrid- )
Gen for tnirty-One years because Of an af- /
lection Of the spine, and for nearly year !
she had been speeChless and blind. She |
is now entirely cured. Miss FOub}e saws |
that about the middle of March she went !
into trance, during which al angel ap- !
peared TO her and blde her pray for her
recovery. On aWaking from the trance |
she prayed long and earnestly and fell |
quietly asleep. In the morning she walked
down to breakfast, to the great astOnish-
menJ of the family, and has not known a
aay of illness since. Sac now spends the
greater part CT her time in singing and
praying.
Ms. John Buchanan. of Waco, Mo,
relates in the Religio-PhilOsOphica Jour
nal how the spirits cured her tifteen-year-
Did daughter of 9 terrible attack of
nalarial fever. The child lay in bed
for three months, suffering terribly, and
was finally given up by the physician,
Who said that in the improbable event of
Ter recovery she would be a cripple for
life in her back and lower limbs. The
mother in her anguish prayed to heaven
or guidance, and the voice of spirit
with instructions for treating
the sufferer. Mrs. Buchanan followed
he instructions implicitly, with the graft
ying result that, to use her own words,
in three days my daughter could turn
lerseli in bed, and in two more days she
ould stand on her feet with a little
assistance, and now she is well, and is
married. and has a sweet little boy"
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